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Mallorca beach in the second Corona summer
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It is true that the corona situation worldwide seems to have eased somewhat this summer as well.
The federal government is planning further easing for vacation countries and entry regulations from August.
Nevertheless, 122 countries are currently still wholly or partially on the list of risk areas - and therefore, in the opinion of many experts, are not recommended for a vacation.
At least not for the unvaccinated.
Apparently, a quarter of German citizens do not want to be put off by this.
According to a survey by the opinion research institute YouGov, two thirds of Germans refuse to spend their holidays in a region classified as a corona risk area by the federal government, such as Spain.
However, 25 percent said that they considered vacations in such risk areas to be acceptable.
The federal government currently lists holiday regions such as Turkey among the simple risk areas.
Portugal and Cyprus are even classified as high incidence areas with particularly high numbers of infections.
Returnees from these two countries who are not fully vaccinated or have recovered must be quarantined for 5 to 10 days.
Those who return from the eleven countries with a high spread of particularly dangerous virus variant areas outside of Europe even have to be in quarantine for 14 days.
This also applies to those who have been vaccinated and those who have recovered.
According to the survey, a large majority of 73 percent support the quarantine obligations.
39 percent are in favor of keeping them as they are.
Another 34 percent are even in favor of tightening.
Only 22 percent are in favor of easing or abolishing the quarantine requirement.
The federal government has already relaxed the travel restrictions for vacationers and is already planning further simplifications.
The category of risk areas, in which 82 countries are currently classified, should possibly be dropped on August 1st with a new entry regulation.
SPD health politician Karl Lauterbach warned unvaccinated people against vacation trips.
"Travel is a risk in these times, this definitely applies to the unvaccinated," he told the newspapers of the Funke media group.
He understands when people feel like going on vacation.
“We'll have a lot more cases in the fall.
It would have happened that way, but it is accelerated somewhat by traveling. "Lauterbach then reckons with a two-class situation:" Here the vaccinated, they are relatively safe.
There the unvaccinated, they'll take a big risk. "
sbo / dpa
